Elon Musk will lose about 13.5 million followers on Twitter if he does take over the social network and works to implement his plan to get rid of most of the fake accounts – according to information published by CodeClan, a Scottish academy for digital skills published by the MarketWatch website.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk did a U-turn yesterday and announced that he was willing to pay $44 billion for the social network Twitter, at a price of $54.20 per share. Musk said he wanted less than 5% of Twitter accounts to be fake.
The number of followers that Musk will lose is small compared to the loss that Canadian pop star Justin Bieber will experience, if Musk does buy Twitter and his plan comes to fruition. According to CodeClan data, Bieber will lose 27.6 million followers out of his 114.2 million followers.
Another pop star, Britney Spears, will lose the highest proportion of followers of the 20 most popular tweeters – 48% of her 55.8 million followers are classified as fake accounts. Former US President Barack Obama is expected to lose 19.3 million followers out of his 131.9 million followers, the data shows.
Among other celebrities, Katy Perry has 23.3 million followers who are fake accounts, out of her 108.9 million followers – 21.4%. Rihanna has 26.5 million fake followers, or 24.9% of her 106.5 million followers. Lady Gaga has 10.9 million fake followers out of 84.7 million followers – 12.9%. Kim Kardashian is followed by 14 million fake accounts, which make up 19.4% of her 72.4 million followers on Twitter and the number of fake accounts following Ellen DeGeneres is 24.4 million, which make up 31.5% of her 77.5 million followers – this is how the information shows.
Among world statesmen, the data shows that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has 17.5 million fake followers among his 78.8 million followers – equivalent to 22.2%.
CNN’s breaking news account has 7.7 million fake accounts following it, or 12.2% of its 63.1 followers. After Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and one of the richest people in the world, 14.3 million fake accounts follow, or 24.2% of his 58.9 million followers. The American space agency NASA has 14.7 million fake followers that make up 26.8% of its 57.1 million followers.